At 10:42 AM -0400 7/12/01, Tim Collier wrote:
>but for yourchildren??......get them a real computer!!!

Oh, I have a PC. A dell Pentium II 266 and it works pretty good and 
runs KaZaA but I have 2 children. I actually have 3 computers 2 Macs 
(sig) and 1 PC all routed on a DSL line which we are all happily 
going on the internet whenever we wish. Except now, they fight over 
the PC. But luckily someone mentioned the http://gnutella.wego.com/ 
gnutella network using LimeWire for Mac and I have to say this is 
very good. I don't know if KaZaA resumes downloads like LimeWire, as 
the kid's use it, I don't. I actually had a total freeze on My Mac 
and had to restart and when I launched LimeWorks it automatically 
resumed downloading where it left off.  I'm always happy when there 
is a Mac solution; although I don't mind using the PC, as I'm 
interested in the "computer" above all and don't mind learning about 
other solutions. But I am a Mac Addict and admit it.

It's interesting too because the music industry just went after 
Napster but all of sudden the cat is out of the bag and there are all 
these Napsters running around and better. I doubt that their bully 
approach will work in the long run. How are they going to fight all 
these individual companies not to mention the real bad boy Hotline 
client? They can't touch Hotline because it is self contained. They 
would have to go after all the servers, as Hotline is like owning a 
Gun; it's what you do with it that matters.

Not that I don't understand their problems but I am sorry, I am not 
sympathetic with the music industry. They charge entirely too much 
for CD's. They are just as greedy as all the people who want free 
music. And there's this concept about the whole music business , and 
the software industry as well that I'm not sure is right. They are 
too greedy. They want the fast buck and continually gouge the public. 
I see artists and craftsmen laboring for hours on beautiful hand made 
things and not able to make alot of money because they can't stamp 
them out. A musicians thinks that he writes and song and he is to be 
able to just sit back and make money over it forever, rather than 
going out to the public and working, singing which he may do as well.

I not so sure that you can depend on making alot of money out of just 
the song. In a way, the song is like advertisement for you;  But that 
is my opinion. It obviously isn't shared. Although I am in favor of 
copywrite laws and don't believe people should be able to just out 
right copy people and make money out of it and so I am against 
pirating in that sense which I believe is the real pirating. But in 
any case, the whole software and music industry will have to rethink 
a new stradegy as the cat is out of the bag and no turning back now.


>You can buy a 1 gig Compaq with a 17 inch monitor for less than $900 (I saw
>the commercial last night) or even an iMac (also less than $900).  These
>computers will run all of the programs that you are struggling with on your
>upgraded Power PC... (the Compaq can even run a Mac OS emulator if you want
>and a new iMac can run OS X).  I can see fiddling around with these
>antiquated computers for 'fun'(God knows I do) but for your
>children??......get them a real computer!!!
>
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